Community Corner
The Session Room @ HopMonk Tavern -RUSTY EVANS AND THE RING OF FIRE (TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH) + Kelly Peterson & Erick Smyth
Doors: 8p| Show: 9p |21+
Cost: $10
Rusty Evans has enjoyed one of the most eclectic and long-lived careers in the annals of rock & roll cultdom, evolving from rockabilly to folk to psychedelia and all the way back again. Born Marcus Uzilevsky in Brooklyn, he later attended New York's School of Art and Design; in 1958 Evans made his recorded debut, releasing the rockabilly efforts "I Lived, I Loved, I Lost" and "Midnight Special" on Brunswick. With songwriter and producer Teddy Randazzo, Evansthen co-founded Eastern Productions, signing the bands Third Bardo and the Facts of Life -- for the former, Evans and Victoria Pike authored the psych cult classic "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time." In 1967 he moved to Los Angeles, working as a staff producer for the Take Six label and helming sessions including the Nervous Breakdown's "I Dig Your Mind." After a stint working with producer Matthew Katz, in 1969 Evans reclaimed his birth name to release a self-titled LP on Kinetic as simply Marcus -- a minor classic of richly orchestrated psych-folk, like much of his work it is a fascinating relic of a particular time and place, in this case San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in the post-Summer of Love era. In 2000 Evans truly traveled full circle, forming the rockabilly combo Ring of Fire with son Danny and releasing a self-titled tribute to Johnny Cash. Under his birth name, he's also enjoyed a measure of fame for his landscape art.
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